Sunday, December 11, 2011

Would you like some Echo? Giveaway Day begins.

That is a picture of Lotta Jansdotter and her fabric line, Echo which I copied from the Windham Fabrics webpage. You can read about her here at Windham Fabrics.

My name is Leanne and welcome to my fabric giveaway for the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day. I hope you will take a minute to look around my blog, where I chronicle my quilting and sewing adventures. You do not need to be a follower to enter this giveaway but if you like what you see, I hope you will join in and follow along.

This giveaway is for a fat quarter bundle of all 16 of the fabrics in the Echo line by Lotta Jansdotter. The image above is from the Fabricworm website - where I purchased the bundle. (The bundle is still in transit, I will edit this with a picture of it here when it arrives.)

If you would like to enter to win this fabric bundle, you need to leave me a comment on this post. Only one comment per person, please (I will remove extra ones). Let me know your favourite holiday treats - cookies, cakes, squares, or whatever. I will be baking this week and would love some new ideas.

I will draw a random winner after 6 pm on Friday December 16, 2011. If you have not attached an email to your profile, please leave it in the comment. If there is no way to contact you, I will draw again immediately. I am happy to ship anywhere in the world from my home in Canada.

Edited to add: Already I have a bunch of "no-reply" comments. Please add your email to your comment if you are not certain your email address is attached to your profile. If I cannot reach you and you are the winner, I will draw again.

764 comments:

Lovely giveaway, Leanne! I was just sitting down to try and start a list for my holiday baking, too. I'll have to come back here for more ideas. I love those chocolate crinkle cookies and chewy ginger-molasses cookies. Well, pretty much any treat really! Thanks!

Mmm yes please, I love mince pies - maybe a British delicacy but delicious, I've not had time to make any yet but have mincemeat in the cupboard maturing from last year! I can't wait! thanks for a fantastic giveaway

With multiple food allergies, it's difficult to bake. These heart pops are somewhat acceptable and are very easy to make.Not sure what to call them - you can see a great photo on my blog.You take two small candy canes and pace them on a wax paper-lined cookie sheet. Place a lollipop stick in the middle. Fill with melted chocolate to join and sprinkle with decorative sprinkles.

My favourite Christmas treat, well, in our house we never seemed to get through the christmas cake fast enough (mum made whoppers!) so dad made "Christmas cake pudding" which is just a chunky big slice of christmas cake crumbled into a bowl with some grated apple, some banana & grapes, some chopped nuts, and mixed altogether with strawberry yoghurt. Trust me, its delish... And with all the fruit, nuts and yoghurt you feel really pleased with yourself eating it after all the usual fatty sugary christmas food. (just forget there's a whopping bit of cake in it...)

Oh my goodness, swooning over that fabric stack!!! My little girl and I love to bake and decorate a Yule Log for Christmas. King Arthur flour has a yummy recipe that can me made regular or gluten free.

Swoon...I love that fabric line! My favorite treat is my Grandmother's homemade chocolate candies...the best one for me is simply 2 wheat thins with peanut butter in the middle and then dipped in chocolate...I can hardly wait!! Thanks for the chance!Smiles~Beth beth.dodd at att.net

wow, what a generous give away! Cookies are my favorite this time of year. Everyone makes different ones so the variety is wonderful!! And Kindle has a free cookie book if your a kindle users, some good ones in there.

I look forward to sewing with the fabric pieces. I baked 3 dozen oatmeal raisin cookies for a cookie exchange I had this week and will be doing it tonight for a holiday party at working we are having tommorow. The joy of the holiday and baking and baking and baking!

I would love to have that fabric stack - heavenly! Thank you for the op. Christmas treats are all so good, but my fave is Fudgy Chocolate Ribbon cake - and wonderful rich chocolate square with a ribbon of cheesecake running through, glazed in dark chocolate. yummy!

I have been drooling over this fabric, but yet to purchase it for myself. Winning would be such a treat!I Love making Christmas candies. PB chocolate balls or "bulls eyes" are always on my list and I want to try chocolate salted caramels this year.

Oh my goodness! I want some of this fabric SO bad! Thanks for the awesome giveaway :-) My favorite holiday treat is Mark Bittman's blondie bars from How to Cook Everything. I make them with bourbon, chocolate chips, and dried cherries, and they are to die for. I've also made them with run, banana mixed into the batter, and peanut butter chips. Or just bourbon and toffee chips. They're endlessly customizable and everyone always loves them. Thanks for the chance to win. And just in case this is no-reply (I don't think it is), my email address is bookgeekgirl at gmail dot com

Yippee! What a lovely giveaway! I like to make caramels each Christmas. Last year I added chocolate caramels to the mix and this year I'm going with a caramel-esque cinnamon candy (maybe more like a Hot Tamale or cinnamon bear). Also, peppermint bark is easy and delish! Happy baking. Thanks!

My favorite treat for the holidays is cookies. I am a cookie addict. Especially the fancy or unusual ones. Last weekend, I made Red Velvet Crackle cookies. They were amazing! You can get the recipe from Mmmm is for Mommy's blog. :)

For some reason I end up being the person everyone else gets to sample their holiday baked goods... without ever having to make any myself! Thanksgiving I go crazy, but Christmas baking is virtually non-existent for me. Last year my sister made these buttery, toffee-ish, pecan bars that were to DIE for. I'm hoping she makes another batch for me to sample this year!

I cannot resist my little sister's shortbread cookies. They are addictive & even though I don't normally have a sweet tooth, I seriously can't resist them! She tells me they are just ordinary shortbread, but I've had other people's & they are just not as good.

That is nice fabric. Christmas treat? Stollen comes to mind, but I think this is something my mom made, I know I never have!! So I am going to say "Butter Tarts"!!! I love butter tarts! Oh man, now I am going to have to go make some!! Thanks alot!! ;-)

Hi Leanne - so glad to have found you! My favourite treat is Apple Crumble, I realise it's not actually christmassy but it's SO good!! There's something so warm and homely about it :) Although it's not technically baking I also love me some mulled wine!

My favorite "quicky" Christmas treat are "poor man's turtles": cover a cookie sheet with parchment or foil (preheat oven to 350). Place pretzel "butter snaps" (the small squares with grids across them) on the sheet and top with an unwrapped rolo (it's great if you have kids- they can unwrap them all!). Bake in the oven for 5-8 minutes. Let cool for a minute and top with a pecan half (or an M&M or any other yummy thing to press into the top). Smush it down a little so the melted rolo "bonds" everything together. Let cool (in teh fridge if you're in a hurry) and enjoy!

Amazing giveaway, Leanne! I would be sitting the corner hoarding all of that loveliness for myself!!

We have all sorts of Christmas food traditions bu my favourite is making gingerbread cookies in all sorts of shapes and then decorating them with royal icing with the girls. I did it with my brothers when I was growing up and the tradition continues. It is an integral part of our holidays.

I just died of excitement - that whole line is right at the top of my Christmas list! My favorite holiday treat is Christmas pudding (I eat it for breakfast!) but I only have a second-rate recipe, my mam makes the best ones... If I'm lucky, she even mails me some for the years that I can't get home - I live 4000 miles away.

Oooh! Lovely! I actually don't do any of the Christmas baking in my family... my husband does! But my favorite thing he makes is chocolate cookies with peppermint chips. Very Christmas-y!rdoran1(at)gmail(dot)com

Thank you for such a generous giveaway! My favorite Christmas treat is a sicilian cookie called cucidati. It's a half moon shaped cookie with a ground fig/date/raisin filling. They're so tasty! I'm hoping that we'll make them again this year.

This is my favorite fabric right now what a great giveaway thank you for the opportunity! I just made salted caramel macarons for the first time for a cookie exchange they were so good and not as hard to make as I thought they would be!

Oh my . . I so need this! Winning it would be the best gift eva! Okay. So my favorite holiday cookie is snicker-doodles. At least it is in my house. I've had all that we made in the house already. lallala. The next thing is a persimmon pudding. I haven't made that in years. It's SOOOO lovely.

Great giveaway, Leanne -- her fabric is gorgeous!!! I whipped up a batch of cinnamon walnut cookies for a holiday party last week, and they seemed to go over really well. Folks like a break from chocolate, I think (although I never tire of chocolate myself!)

My favorite Christmas goodies include anything my Grandmother used to make at Christmas-time (peanut butter balls, chocolate covered cherries, fudge...). For a more modern Christmas, my family loves chocolate cookies with mint and chocolate chips with vanilla ice cream sandwiched between them and frozen. Now I'm hungry....

Ooh, I've wanted this collection so bad! My holiday favorites are shortbread and my family's fudge receipe (Laura Secord yumminess). I also love After Eights... not really a home baked good, but so yummy.

Peanut Butter Cup cookies - pretty much a peanut butter cookie dough scooped into a ball and baked in a mini muffin tin, then you push in a mini peanut butter cup when the cookie is still warm. Pecan Tassies or Pecan Tea Cakes are great too! www.melindajanedesigns.com

This is totally excellent giveaway, thank you!!! I'm really enjoying Fruit Mince Pies this year. I went somewhere recently and had fruit mince chocolate balls which were delicious! The person who made them said you just melt some chocolate, mix some fruit mince through and make into balls and roll in coconut. Yummo!!

I love Lotta's designs !!In our kitchen, we made a gingerbread house, complete with decoration : great !And I love millionaire shortcake, with the caraml in the midle and the chocolate on top... Mmmm... just because it is really really cold outside (to justify the calories, I mean...)!!!Thanks for this fab giveaway !

Well you know I love Echo and could always handle some more, which I appreciate is annoyingly greedy. My favourite Christmas treat is probably German stollen or mince pies or just good old Christmas cake! Thanks for an AMAZING giveaway Leanne!

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